By Alexandra Lambright, Head of Youth Services
The Lynnfield Public Library is open all summer long to help Lynnfield Public School students find their summer reading books! A selection of the books for Grade 1-4 can be found on the blue cart in the Lynnfield Library Children’s Room along with Fish in a Tree and El Deafo. To find the other titles included in this list please visit our catalog or call/visit for help. For assignment details please visit the Lynnfield Public Schools Summer Reading Assignment site.
For grades 1st – 4th
This summer the elementary school has published a list of suggested books for students. A selection of them along with the LPS Elementary Summer of Fun Calendar can be found on the blue Summer Reading cart in the Children’s Room.
For 5th grade
For 6th grade
- Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook |
For 7th & 8th Grade
Each incoming seventh or eighth grader is required to read one book over the summer. Students have chosen a book to read that is sponsored by one of next year’s grade 7 or grade 8 teachers. Students Should check their Google Classroom if they have forgotten their assigned book.
- Grade 7
- Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands| Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook|
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print | Preloaded Audiobook
- Front Desk by Kelly Yang | Book | E-book | E-audio | Preloaded Audiobook |
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Preloaded Audiobook |
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print | Preloaded Audiobook |
- I will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifrenka & Lauren Welch | Book | CD Audiobook
- Out There by Seaerra Miller | Book |
- Rebound(The Crossover Series) by Kwame Alexander | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print | Preloaded Audiobook | Audio Enabled Book |
- Shoe Dog(Young Reader Edition) by Dave Eggers | Book | E-book |
- Wood Runner by Gary Paulsen | Book | E-book |
- Grade 8
- Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson | Book | E-book | E-audio | Preloaded Audiobook |
- Downriver by Will Hobbs | Book |
- Out There by Seaerra Miller | Book |
- The Disappearing Spoon (Young Reader’s Edition) by Sam Kean | Book |
- The Eyes and the Impossible by David Eggers| Book | E-book | E-audio |
- The Giver by Lois Lowry | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print | Preloaded Audiobook |
- The Inheritance Game #1 by Jennifer Lynn Barnes | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Preloaded Audiobook |
- The Inheritance Game #2: The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes | Book | E-book | E-audio | Preloaded Audiobook |
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print | Preloaded Audiobook |
- The Thieves Gambit by Kayvion Lewis | Book | E-book | E-audio |
For 9th – 12th Grade
- Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook |
- If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin | Book | E-book | E-audio |
- Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook |
- The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson | Book | E-book | E-audio |
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley | Book | E-book |
- Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print | Preloaded Audiobook |
- You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow | Book | E-book | E-audio |
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Preloaded Audiobook |
- You are Not so Smart by David McRaney | Book | E-audio |
- End Zone by Don DeLillo | Book |
- Queen Hereafter by Isabelle Schuler| Book | E-audio |
- Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French | Book | Large Print |
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram | Book | E-book | E-audio |
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print | Preloaded Audiobook |
- A Walk in the Woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print |
- Carrie by Stephen King | Book | E-book | E-audio |
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print | Preloaded Audiobook |
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print |
- The Dip: A Little Book that Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin | Book |
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson | Book | E-book | E-audio |
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print | Preloaded Audiobook |
- Acceptance by Emi Nietfeld | Book |
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook |Preloaded Audiobook |
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print |
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Large Print |